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Daniel Mejia, who completed his Ph.D. at Brown in 2006, was awarded the 2015 Juan Luis Londono prize, which is awarded every other year for the best Colombian economist under the age of 40. Mejia is a professor at Universidad de los Andes.

On Tuesday, March 31st, Robert Stavins will present the Bernard I. Fain Lecture, “What Can an Economist Possibly Have to Say about Climate Change?”

Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

This spring’s Economics in the Real World Day event will take place on March 2. There will be a talk and panel featuring Harvard’s Raj Chetty, a principal investigator of the joint Harvard-UC Berkeley Equality of Opportunity Project. The panel of discussants will include Brown economists John Friedman, Justine Hastings, and Glenn Loury.

The Brown Economics Department is excited to announce the addition of three new faculty this semester. Emily Oster and Jesse Shapiro, previously of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, have been visitors of the Department for the past few months and join our regular faculty in January, 2015. John Friedman joins our faculty for the first time this same month, moving to Brown from Harvard.